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E. QUE'NNOY. ULIGHE" FOR PRINTING PATTERNS.

P atented May 5,1898.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ETIENNE QUENNOY, OF LILLE, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO HENRI EDOUARD COUZINEAU, OF SAME PLACE.

CLlCHl. FOR PRINTING PATTERNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,578, dated May 3, 1898.

Application filed December 3, 1895- Serial No. 570,924. (N model.) Patented in France December 6, 1894.1I0. 243,310 in Belgium March 6, 1895, No. 114,395, and in Austria May 4,1895,No.45/1,582.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LETIENNE QUENNOY, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing in Lille, Department of Nord, France, have invented Improvements in Cliches for Printing Patterns or the Like, (for which I have obtained a French patent,No. 243,310, dated December 6, 1894, with certificate of addition dated March 4, 1895 a Belgian patent, No. 114,395, dated March 6, 1895, and an Austrian patent, No. /l,582, dated May 4, 1895,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in cliches for printing or impressing designs, patterns, or outlines for garments or for analogous purposes; and it consists in the novel clich hereinafter described and claimed.

The various pieces of cloth or the like forming articles, for example, of wearing-apparel have hitherto been marked out by means of patterns, which are cut out and arranged on the cloth or fabric and the outlines are then traced round by hand with chalk. This method of procedure demands a certain amount of skill on the part of the workman to keep truly to the outlines and to arrange or group the patterns so as to obtain as little Waste of material as possible, and there is a considerable loss of time. By the use of my invention I employ apparatus for effecting this tracing in place of the manual tracing just described. For this purpose I form cliches which reproduce previously-arranged patterns of wearing-apparel or the like. and I mount the said cliches on a printing apparatus and use them as ordinary printing surfaces or bands for transferring or printing on the material the outlines of the different pieces constituting the apparel. The cloth or fabric may then be cut out in the ordinary manner with the certainty that all the pieces are of uniform size, that the material has been economically utilized, and that the operation is performed in a very short space of time.

I will now describe, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the best means I am acquainted with for forming the clichs and one mode of applying them to printing-machines.

Figure 1 shows in plan the patterns arranged on the surface which is to constitute the clichs. Figs. 2 and 3 show wheels for tracing and obtaining the outlines in relief on the printing-surface. Fig. 4 shows the clich completed, with patterns impressed thereon in relief. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section, Fig. 6 a plan, and Fig. 7 a cross-section on line 1 2 of Fig. 5, of a printing apparatus on which the clich is used.

Facsimiles of the different pieces required to form the wearing-apparel or the like are first cut out as patterns in cardboard, and the various patterns at 00 so formed are then carefully arranged or grouped together on a thin sheet of metal X, Fig. 1, of a convenient length and corresponding in width to that of the material from which the pieces are to be cut, so that the various pieces lit closely together and leave as few uncovered spaces as possible. When this grouping is finished, which grouping varies with each particular kind of garment to be cut out-and must be left to the workman to properly carry out, the operator takes a marking-wheel of the kind shown at Z, Fig. 2, and traces round the outlines of the pattern a: with a slight pressure on the said Wheel. This pressure produces on the metal sheet or band X, which is placed on a table T, covered with a sheet of caoutchouc '1", Fig. 2, slight impressions a, in which a second wheel Z, Fig. 3, is passed, the patterns having been first removed. This second wheel Z is provided with lateral bearingsurfaces z, which limit the penetration ofthe Wheel into the metal and which produce on the opposite face thereof regular lines 2 in relief of equal height for all the outlines. The metal band or sheet -X so formed constitutes the clich, the parts in relief 2, Fig. 4, of which exactly reproduce the outlines of the patterns m '00 00 which have been previously arranged on the metal sheet and which is to be employed for printing on the cloth or fabric.

Although I preferably employ a metal sheet The clich is composed solely of a sheet or band made of a single layer of material, usually from three to four and a half meters long, having the outlines of the pattern pressed up in relief thereonthat is, without any cement or other such backingin order that it may be so thin and flexible that it can be rolled up with the relief inside, thus taking up very little space. It is very light and easily handled, and consequently will not deteriorate.

The clich when prepared is fixed on a printing-cylinder or 011 a printingtable, and for this purpose its ends are provided with perforations or holes 2 permitting it to be tied or otherwise fixed, or any other suitable means for connecting the ends together may be employed for securely fixing the clich on the drum or over the table which receives it.

I have shown one form of printing apparatus in which my clich may be applied; but it is'to be understood that it may be applied to other forms as well.

Referring now to Figs. 5, 6, and 7, the clich X is fixed on a drum or roller D and tangentially to the drum D, carrying the clich X, is a cylinder E, over which passes the material E to be printed, inking-rollers O supplying ink from the holder G to the parts Z in relief on the clich X. The cylinder E drives the drum D by means of a strap M, passing over pulleys mounted, respectively, on the axis of the cylinder and on the axis of a toothed pinion N, gearing with a toothed wheel N on the axis of the said drum D. The diameter of the drum is preferably twice that of the cylinder, so that the latter makes two revolutions for every revolution of the drum. When the drum D is rotated, the ink on the parts Z on the clich is transferred onto the material E, which is thus printed according to the outlines on the said clich, receiving a similar impression for every fresh revolution of thedrum. After the material has been thus printed or impressed it may be cut out according to the outlin es delineated thereon,which are exactly reproduced, and the said cutting out is effected without the loss of material hitherto incurred. WVith such apparatus the work is rapidly performed and special workmen for tracing the patterns are not required. The apparatus is operated, for example, by rotating a cranked handle V, keyed on the axis of the cylinder E. The axis of the drum is preferably mounted in yielding bearings, so as to secure, by counterweights W, for example, or by any other suitable means, contact with the cylinder E. The lower inking-roller is kept against the-drum D in a similar manner by counterweights W.

What I claim is A clich for printing patterns on garments I or the like, composed solely of a thin'fiexible sheet or band of a single layer of material and adapted to be rolled up and having the outlines of the pattern pressed up in relief thereon, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ETIENNE QUENNOY. Witnesses:

DAVID OGILVIE, EMILE PIERRIS. 

